Hacker News: fuzzygroup

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends"

fuzzygroup — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:12:12 +0000

No. While there has always been corruption, this is a different order of magnitude.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends"

fuzzygroup — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:11:33 +0000

No. Large numbers of Americans aren't. Corruption and abuse of power is why we we have millions of people protesting. It may not be covered on the mainstream news but I was on the ground in Chicago where I easily saw a quarter of a million protestors. New York, Los Angeles and other big cities had similar numbers.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

fuzzygroup — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:47:57 +0000

A food aid grant program to help anyone do mutual aid. Its grass roots activism meets the current SNAP cut madness.

https://www.pollitify.com/grants

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Ask HN: What is your system for learning new things?"

fuzzygroup — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:18:28 +0000

I have three techniques that never seem to fail for me in increasing order of complexity.

1. Write a blog post about it. I'm an old school blogger and my best learning tool is to immediately start writing about it. I'll do this even before I've used the thing in question. Another writer here talks about producing versus consuming and that's the magic -- this shifts you immediately into being a producer. Most things you try and learn aren't that hard when you start actively engaging with the topic by writing about them.

2. Write test coverage. If it is a software technology then I'll start to use it by writing out the tests needed to use it. I find tests always make software technologies much more understandable because, inherently, they force you to think very atomically.

3. If I really, really want to understand something in depth then I'll create a side project about it or that requires it. Just for example I'm currently doing this as a way to force myself to build better web apps. I've chosen HotWrite and Turbo as enabling technologies and now I've got the core of a neat little app that avoids full screen redraws, uses CSS I actually understand and so on.

Term Rewriting in Mathematica

fuzzygroup — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:14:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic02.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34336265

Points: 2

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New comment by fuzzygroup in "Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine"

fuzzygroup — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:10:12 +0000

This is utterly fantastic and you are to be commended for your Crazy Mad Scientist genius!

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years"

fuzzygroup — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 11:01:57 +0000

In case any founders out there are wondering if a Hacker News post drives actual revenues, I needed to make a timeline today, remembered this, signed up, hit the limit and bought an account.

PS - This is the best timeline tool I've ever used. I used it to chart out my career history and it was damn useful.

https://www.preceden.com/timelines/869343-scott-johnson-care...

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Gripes with RSS after one week"

fuzzygroup — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:08:34 +0000

The problem with feed discovery is very, very real. Lots and lots of feeds exist that don't have link tags. I wrote Scott's Feed Finder to probe for them. Yes I'm biased but its a very solid feed discovery tool:

https://scottsfeedfinder.com/

And don't even get me started on ranting about podcasts that don't clearly label their feed.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?"

fuzzygroup — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:11:57 +0000

Yes they should absolutely be banned.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?"

fuzzygroup — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:13:49 +0000

This is a fantastic podcast. I'd recommend it for any developer. Thank you Adam.

What Happened to Search in Gmail?

fuzzygroup — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 05:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/fuzzygroup/status/1594560384458903554

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33689112

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Ask HN: What are the reasons behind your success as a self-taught programmer?"

fuzzygroup — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:29:43 +0000

2 and 3 along with constantly building side projects. you build enough side projects, to completion, and you get much, much better.

One of my side projects even got venture funding (and not in 2021 when things were overheated -- back in 2003).

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing"

fuzzygroup — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 11:42:01 +0000

I'm a very, very happy HogBay customer. Two comments: the product is high quality and the support is outstanding. Recommended.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell"

fuzzygroup — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:15:00 +0000

I find the lack of string interpolation to be the one thing that kills me about javascript. The lack of it feels wrong and I can't get behind languages that don't have easy interpolation.

Yes Ruby has ruined me.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Remix web framework aquired by Shopify"

fuzzygroup — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:59:43 +0000

Amen!

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Brunswick Stew, a Southern Classic"

fuzzygroup — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:18:56 +0000

The article is free. The recipe is paywalled. You can tease the recipe out by curling the url:

curl https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023587-brunswick-stew

-or-

https://gist.github.com/fuzzygroup/9496c22cb3c429ae3cf3aea19...

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids"

fuzzygroup — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:15:01 +0000

You can mentor people. You can adopt. You can foster a child. You can engage with your community. You could be a boy scout leader. There are lots and lots of ways to engage with kids that aren't "biologically yours". Technically my oldest son is a child I adopted and I never actually think that he's adopted. He is simply my son.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "The Tilde Text Editor"

fuzzygroup — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 07:40:40 +0000

Thank you. Seriously. Thank you. Nicely done.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Apple Car: Bad Idea After All"

fuzzygroup — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:17:45 +0000

Agreed. The car manufacturers will lose control of the "car user interface" if they take on Apple's new CarPlay. My prediction tho is that some manufacturer will be desperate and take it and on then its a slow moving wave that crests over the industry as consumers ask for it.

New comment by fuzzygroup in "Apple Car: Bad Idea After All"

fuzzygroup — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:16:08 +0000

I also wouldn't buy another car without CarPlay.